Tepe Yahya
Tepe Yahya is an archaeological site in Kermān Province, Iran, some 220 km south of Kerman city, 90 km south of Baft city and 90 km south-west of Jiroft.
| Tepe Yahya | |
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  Tepe Yahya Location in Iran | |
| Coordinates: 28°19′51″N 56°52′03″E / 28.33083°N 56.86750°E |
History
Habitation spans the 6th to 2nd millennia BCE and the 10th to 4th centuries BCE. In the 3rd millennium BCE, the city was a production center of chlorite pottery which were exported to Mesopotamia. In this period, the area was under Elamite influence, and tablets with Proto-Elamite inscriptions were found. [1]
Archaeology
The site is a circular mound, around 20 meters in height and around 187 meters in diameter. [2] It was excavated in six seasons from 1967 to 1975 by the American School of Prehistoric Research of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology of Harvard University in a joint operation with what is now the Shiraz University. The expedition was under the direction of C. C. Lamberg-Karlovsky. [3] [4] [5]
Periodization is as follows:
- Period I Sasanian pre: 200 BC-400 A.D.
- Period II Achaemenian(?): 275-500 B.C.
- Period III Iron Age: 500-1000 B.C.
- Period IV A Elamite?: 2200-2500 B.C.
- IV B Proto-Elamite: 2500-3000 B.C.
- IV C Proto-Elamite: 3000-3400 B.C.
- Period V Yahya Culture: 3400-3800 B.C.
- Period VI Coarse Ware-Neolithic: 3800-4500 B.C.
- Period VII: 4500-5500 B.C.
See also
- Shahr-i Sokhta
- Jiroft culture
- Marhasi
- Cities of the Ancient Near East
Notes
- ↑ C. C. Lamberg-Karlovsky, The Proto-Elamite Settlement at Tepe Yahya, Iran, vol. 9, pp. 87-96, 1971
- ↑ D. Potts, The Potter's Marks of Tepe Yahya, Paléorient, vol. 7, iss. 7-1, pp. 107-122, 1981
- ↑ C. C. Lamberg-Karlovsky, Excavations at Tepe Yahya Iran 1967-1969: progress report 1, American School of Prehistoric Research Bulletin. no. 27, 1970 (Available online here)
- ↑ C. C. Lamberg-Karlovsky, Tepe Yahya 1971: Mesopotamia and the Indo-Iranian Borderlands, Iran, vol. 10, pp. 89-100, 1972
- ↑ C. C. Lamberg-Karlovsky, Urban interaction on the Iranian plateau: Excavations at Tepe Yahya 1967-1973, Oxford University Press, 1974, ISBN 0-19-725703-8
References
- Clifford C. Lamberg-Karlovsky: Excavations at Tepe Yahya, Iran, 1967–1975, The early periods, Cambridge, Mass. 1986, ISBN 0-87365-541-9
- Clifford C. Lamberg-Karlovsky: Excavations at Tepe Yahya, Iran, 1967–1975, The third millennium, Cambridge, Mass. 2001 ISBN 0-87365-549-4 (Available online at )
- Peter Magee: Excavations at Tepe Yahya, Iran, 1967-1975: The Iron Age Settlement, ISBN 0-87365-550-8
- Peter Damerow, Robert K. Englund: The proto-elamite texts from Tepe Yahya, Cambridge, Mass. 1989 ISBN 0-87365-542-7
- D. T. Potts, The Archaeology of Elam: Formation and Transformation of an Ancient Iranian State, Cambridge University Press, 1999, ISBN 0-521-56496-4
- M. L., Eda Vidali and C. C. Lamberg-Karlovsky, Prehistoric Settlement Patterns around Tepe Yahya: A Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Near Eastern Studies, vol. 35, no. 4, pp. 237–250, 1976
External links
- Art of the Bronze Age: Southeastern Iran, Western Central Asia, and the Indus Valley, an exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on Tepe Yahya
Coordinates: 28°19′51″N 56°52′03″E / 28.33083°N 56.86750°E